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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MEG BLAIR'S WELL Meg Blair's Well
Meg Blair's Well
Meg Blair's Well
Plan of Glebe
Rev. [Reverend] W. Low
James Mitchell
006 A good spring of pure water forming the head of "Stripe of Droustie".
SCOTS WELL Scots Well
Scots Well
Scots Well
Rev. [Reverend] W. Low
David Christison Auchronie
James Mitchell
006 A fine spring of pure water upwards of a quarter of a mile West of Meg Blair's Well.
DROUSTIE'S WELL Droustie's Well
Droustie's Well
Land of the Lindsays
William Masson, Schoolmaster
006 This well is now muddy from long disuse and the name is nearly unknown.
"From the site of the present Manse being called "Droustie" and a fountain near by "Droustie's Well" it may be inferred that these are corruptions of the name of St. Drostan",
Land of the Lindsays
STRIPE OF DROUSTIE Stripe of Droustie
Stripe of Droustie
Stripe of Droustie
Rev. [Reverend] W. Low
W. Masson
James Mitchell
006 A small stream flowing past the Manse, This and the above are the only relicts of the name of Droustie which applied at one time to an alehouse which stood where the Manse now stands.

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Co. [County] Forfar -- Parish of Lochlee

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